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Minister of Public Works Lindiwe Sisulu has proposed that civil servants be banned from conducting business with the state.

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Sisulu said it was time
public servants chose between serving the state and being in private business, the
Sunday Times reported.

"I think that if we
cut that umbilical cord, we might succeed in making sure that we are creating a
cadre of the public service who is concerned [with] and only concentrating on
the job, and not doing the job but at the same time benefiting from the state,"
she was quoted as saying.

Sisulu was working on
amending the Public Service Act to make this a law.

She has also called for
those found guilty of fraud, corruption or financial mismanagement to be
blacklisted and barred from working for any government department.

These were her latest
attempts at getting rid of the misuse of public funds by government employees.

Sisulu told the paper
that she intends to set up an office of standards compliance in her department
that would be headed by a "super-director-general".

The general's role would
be to ensure that director-generals and provincial heads of department deliver
on their duties, said the paper.

Sisulu said the
cabinet was now screening all senior appointments and those found guilty of
transgressions would be fired, reported the Sunday Times.